I have an old Pentium 4 (478 socket CPU socket) processor.
A while ago, I bought an NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (the ones that are PCI compatible)...
anyways, further down the line i see this awesome 1TB SATA hard drive...
but to get that i may need to upgrade my motherboard (and CPU) from pentium 4 and 478 socket to core 2 (may as well go quad) and 775 socket....
this also means going from PCI to PCI-Ex16...
If i do that, will the graphics card be compatible with the PCI-Ex16 Controller??
No. PCI and PCIExpress are COMPLETELY different things and have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with each other, despite the similarity in name.
They are UTTERLY incompatible. You cannot plug PCI cards into PCIExpress slots, and you cannot plug PCIExpress cards into PCI slots. They won't even fit.
DO NOT CONFUSE THE TWO.
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